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Louie Anderson: "You know what I wish I would have done most of all? I wish I would have stuck to my guns ... and not let people push me around with what they thought I should do. I always tell people to be fearless, stick to your guns and just be yourself."

Louie Anderson: "You know what I wish I would have done most of all? I wish I would have stuck to my guns ... and not let people push me around with what they thought I should do. I always tell people to be fearless, stick to your guns and just be yourself." (Courtesy photo from Fox)

Louie Anderson has turned his life growing up in Minnesota with a sweet-hearted mother, loud-mouthed father and house full of 10 siblings into a 40-year comedy career that has taken him from late-night stand-up stardom to award-winning turns as an actor. Anderson’s stand-up comedy show at the historic...

Movies

Propelled by lovely, engaging writing and wonderful performances, “Stan & Ollie,” the story of the bittersweet final bow of legendary duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, should move and delight fans of the beloved performers while enjoyably exposing the less initiated to these comedy giants. Director...

Two years ago, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan landed a worldwide success and regained his Hollywood clout with “Split,” thanks mostly to James McAvoy turning it into a sizzle-reel audition for the part he’d already secured. McAvoy’s multiple-personality serial killer character, Kevin Wendell...

Bravura work by Nicole Kidman is the defining feature of Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,” but that doesn’t mean you’d want to put it on a double bill with “The Hours” or “To Die For.” Not even close. Instead, think of Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator” or Peter Weller in “Robocop.” Imagine a...

Music

At the mid-point of its monthlong “Hearing the Future” festival, the San Diego Symphony pushed the pause button on new music Friday evening, with three works that abandoned the conventions of Beethovenian Classicism and pushed music in new directions in the first half of the 19th century. Forsaking...

Grammy Award-winning troubadour Jason Mraz is one of the top nominees for the 2019 edition of the San Diego Music Awards, which will be held March 11 at downtown’s House of Blues. Tickets go on sale Monday. Mraz, who will perform at the all-ages awards fete, is nominated for Artist of the Year,...

Singer Tori Kelly will kick off her “The Acoustic Sessions” concert tour at the Fox Theater in Tucson on Feb. 25. It will conclude April 13 at The Fillmore in New Orleans and — true to its billing — will feature her performing in a stripped-down acoustic setting. The North American concert trek...

Theater

Sometimes there’s a moment in a show that just begs to be anointed with that old cliche: “This is worth the price of the ticket by itself.” And which moment is that in Lamb’s Players Theatre’s celebratory revue “A Jewel in the Crown City?” Well … kind of all of them. It’s Brian Mackey’s winningly...

The national touring production of “Hello, Dolly!” opened a six-day run at the San Diego Civic Theatre on Tuesday, which was the same day its original star, Carol Channing, passed away at age 97. Broadway has a longstanding tradition of celebrating its legendary stage divas well into their golden...

Big airs and Broadway are destined for a major duet, with a just-announced stage musical whose creative team includes North County’s own skateboard deity Tony Hawk. The show is based on the Nick Hornby novel “Slam,” and is aiming to hit Broadway in 2020-21, according to Rolling Stone and other...